Alternative Search Engines Forum

The first, Krugle , demonstrated a search engine that finds code for reuse. Its unofficial tagline is "the Google (Profile, Products, Articles) for programming code." The benefit of Krugle's search engine is obvious to any developer who has looked to the open source community to find some nifty utility, rather than starting from scratch.

vibgyor79, great SE, thanks for the link! I hadn't heard of this one. I don't know if 250mill is a lot of lines of code, but the few test phrases I plugged in came back with results I'd expect to find, so ++.

For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel -- at least, that's the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low, because it's often too hard for programmers to find relevant bits of code for their applications.